Max Kovalsky
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Rick,
I don’t have any insights into Toast, but we HAVE made Blu-rays with DVDs. Not all players will play them. Sonys and Panasonics do, but we haven’t had success with Samsungs. Sharps and LGs are out of the question as well. If you have any control over encoding, keep your total bitrates around 17mbps or lower, otherwise playback will be jerky.
Max
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Lower your black bar to 0 from 16. Also, you don’t need to stay broadcast safe for DVD, so you can use the full range.
Max
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Animation compression is VERY difficult. Starting from the fact that very few tools can even create Blu-ray compliant video, even fewer were designed to compress animation. The only two I know of that do a good job are CinemaCraft HD and Sony Blu-code.
Max
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If you made the original DLTs you ‘should’ know what kind of protection method was used. If the discs are not encrypted, you can use Gear Mastering to make new DLTs straight form the discs. It’s a very simple process.
Max
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Apple tools are known for not doing a good job at downconverting. For small-budget projects we use use ProCoder. It does a great job at either encoding straight to SD mpeg2 from HD source or downresing to uncompressed SD.
Max
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Sonic probably has info on their site. Scenarist has # of streams, movie objects and titles limitations. No PIP, I believe and only BDCMF, no SonyCMF. Cinevision doesn’t do segment re-encoding.
Max
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Scenarist Studio BD is probably your best bet. I think it’s priced around $20K and includes stripped-down versions of their encoder and authoring app. It will let you create both the AACS compliant image and BD compliant video streams.
Max
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Separate your audio from video and give them the elements separately: video QT, stereo WAV of the mix, dialogue stereo WAV, m&e stereo WAV. They will put it all together on a timeline and layout everything to tape.
Max
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I’m not surprised they want to charge more — after all they have to pay their tech for tinkering around, looking for renders and trying to solve the issue, never mind trying up the machine.
Having a 3rd party layback to tape from FCP project file is more often than not a nightmare. You should resupply a rendered uncompressed QT (ask them in what codec: blackmagic, aja?) and 3 stereo WAV mixes.
Max
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Jeff,
You’re correct about what muxing is, however the muxing engine is included in all BD authoring apps. It’s not something extra that you have to buy.Max
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